A Chart of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland

A Chart of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland is the shortened name of a portolan chart that goes by a couple of other names, including “Sea-atlas, Containing an Hydrographical Description of the Sea-coasts of Most of the Known Parts of the World.” It was published in 1700 in London by John Thornton, who was a hydrographer for the Hudson Bay Company and the English East India Company. However, he was more than that. He was a leading English chart maker  Who was active from 1667 to 1708. He became a leading manuscript chart practitioner in the mid-1600s, but later transitioned into printing charts, before entering publishing in the 1670s with a focus on charts. It is believed that the most important of his atlases is the ​‘English Pilot.’ This map is part of a greater body of work- Atlas Maritimus or, the Sea-atlas, which is a book of maritime charts that describes the coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers, bays, and harbors, roads, rivers, and ports in most of